Re: Display of undisplayable characters: \U01F3A8 instead of diamond

[Emanuel Berg]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> In that case, you can significantly improve the situation by typing
>
>    M-x latin1-display-ucs-per-lynx RET

Not a command or even function but a variable?

> or by using "M-x customize-variable" to customize the variable
> latin1-display-ucs-per-lynx to a non-nil value.

Yeah, it says in the help you can't set just it. Not good ...

  Setting this variable directly does not take effect; use
  either M-x customize or the function ‘latin1-display’.

Don't understand how `latin1-display' is supposed to be
used ...

> (set-char-table-extra-slot glyphless-char-display 0 "*")

But that will be [*] - three chars.

This

  (set-char-table-extra-slot glyphless-char-display 0 'thin-space)

is better then since it won't prolong the line where it
happens ...

> (With the latest master branch, if the string is a single character,
> it will not be enclosed in [..]

So it can, great ... I'll get it now!

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